Studying at the University of Verona
Here you can find information on the organisational aspects of the Programme, lecture timetables, learning activities and useful contact details for your time at the University, from enrolment to graduation.
Study Plan
The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
Please select your Study Plan based on your enrollment year.
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3° Year It will be activated in the A.Y. 2026/2027
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Legend | Type of training activity (TTA)
TAF (Type of Educational Activity) All courses and activities are classified into different types of educational activities, indicated by a letter.
Community preventive medicine (2024/2025)
Teaching code
4S010727
Credits
5
Coordinator
Language
Italian
Courses Single
Not Authorized
The teaching is organized as follows:
Learning objectives
The course addresses and analyses with a preventive perspective the main health and social issues related to the phenomena of inequality and disadvantaged groups, globalization and migration, with particular reference to the impact on mental and physical health, substance addiction and behavioural addictions.
It also provides the theoretical and practical tools which are essential to understanding and analysing the activities to promote healthy and active ageing through prevention of behavioural risk factors and modification of lifestyles.
- Describe strategies and tools to perform individual and community prevention in a community medicine setting.
- Analyse issues related to the consequences of inequality in health protection and welfare systems.
- Analyse morbidity and mortality in disadvantaged groups.
- Recognise determinants and factors that increase domestic abuse, gender-based violence and identify interventions to early catch and act against violence.
- Describe the socio- sanitary impact and analyse prevention strategies for drug abuse (smoking, alcohol, drugs) and addictive behaviours (gambling addiction, sex addiction, internet addiction, etc.).
- Describe the impact of social determinants (education, employment, housing, social cohesion...) on the health of immigrant people.
- Understand and analyse traumatic experiences and post-migratory life difficulties and gender determinants with respect to the health of migrant women.
- Describe all aspects that promote well-being for the elderly (health healthcare and social features).
- Use the data from the “PASSI d’Argento” database to identify areas of concerns, to track trends of risk factors and suggest evidence-based interventions to maintain wellbeing and independence.
Prerequisites and basic notions
To pass the exam, the student must demonstrate knowledge of the main health and social-health issues related to the phenomena of inequality and disadvantaged groups, globalization and migration, with particular reference to the impact on mental and physical health, substance addiction and behavioral addictions; he/she must also demonstrate understanding and analyzing the activities to promote healthy and active aging through the prevention of behavioral risk factors and lifestyle changes.
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Criteria for the composition of the final grade
The final grade will be calculated on the weighted average based on the CFU (university credits).
The exam will be written for the module "Health assistant methodology for promoting health in the community", it will be an oral test for the remaining modules.
